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Skillshare

Watercolor Moonlight

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Overview

We all have admired the beauty of moonlight some day or the other and if you can replicate the same on paper its pure love. This Watercolor Moonlight class is focused on helping you to see through objects and paint them with watercolors. The course structure is worked in a way that it would help any art enthusiast to improve watercolors in stepwise manner as well as learn to be patient, alert and let go off the control so that water and pigments can perform their own Magic.

Techniques:

  • Wet on Wet
  • Wet on Dry
  • Multiple washes - Flat wash & Variegated Wash

Exercises:

  • Blue Moon in Monochrome
  • Blood Moon in Limited Palette

Compositions:

  • Moonlight in Pines
  • By the evening

There are two class projects and each one of them use different techniques. All the paintings are inspired by nature and all the learnings can be used in any of your future compositions.

Materials required

  • Arches 300 gsm Cold Pressed paper (100% cotton)
  • Any brand of artist grade watercolors available with you
  • Silver Black Velvet Brush (4,6,8) and a Flat Brush (1 inch by Princeton)
  • Watercolor Palette
  • Masking Tape (.5 inch, 1 inch & 2 inch)
  • Masking fluid
  • Pencil & eraser

**Highly recommend you to use 100% cotton 300 gsm Arches watercolor paper.

 **Resources -

  • Watercolor Waterscapes - (Painting Seascape in two ways)
  • Expressive Watercolor Landscape in 10 Minutes

 

Syllabus

  • Introduction Watercolor Moonlight
  • Materials required
  • Colors & Quick Tips
  • Exercise 1 Blue Moon
  • Exercise 2 - Blood Moon
  • Composition 1 - Moonlight in the Pines
  • Composition 2 - By the Evening
  • Project 1 - Part 1 - Dramatic Moonlight
  • Project 1 - Part 2 - Dramatic Moonlight
  • Project 2 - Part 1 - Reflections
  • Project 2 - Part 2 - Reflections & Conclusion
  • Bonus Lesson

Taught by

Dhritikana Nath

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